Alabama farmer, descended from slaves, recounts his family’s history

By: Alabama News Center Staff

Albert “Peter” Datcher says people of color “need to look at our ancestry,” and that is precisely what this family farmer and community historian in rural Shelby County has been devoted to doing for much of his life.

Datcher descends from enslaved people who worked the same land near Harpersville that his family has farmed for generations. Indeed, it was his once-enslaved great-grandfather who was able to purchase the first 100 acres following the Civil War – land that was part of a plantation. Since then, the farm has grown to 400 acres.

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